Epilepsy is a common clinical neurological disease. The incidence rate was about 3.6% to 4.8% from among the total number of existing about 600 million patients. Its duration is usually longer, hard to be cured and troubled many patients. With the continuous increase in patients with epilepsy, the world is stepping up research on epilepsy, but its pathogenesis is complex, yet no satisfactory cure. Western antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), although some patients can be controlled, its side effects and cognitive function of behavior, the negative influence is bigger. To this end, an urgent need to explore the safety, efficiency, toxic side effects of antiepileptic drugs and new therapies. In recent years, Chinese medicine has made great progress in the treatment of epilepsy, can significantly improve the effectiveness of treatment or cure rate in patients with simple applications to reduce the side effects of western medicine. How to better play to the future advantages of Chinese medicine, open up new ways to control epilepsy card about new methods, is a very interesting course with practical significance.Professor Yan Ye in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases, more than 30 years, has accumulated rich clinical experience. She combined with modern physiological and pathological characteristics, reasonable use of traditional medicine, division of ancient and not learn it, to innovation, that catharsis liver failure, phlegm and blood stasis resistance network is the basic pathogenesis of epilepsy. She used Shugan Qi, expelling wind and phlegm, stasis treatment of meridians, patients with specific clinical and intermittent episodes of the diagnosis and treatment of clinical effect is remarkable. |